Ritual killing: Kwara govt visits family of Hafsoh Lawal, says justice would be served
The Kwara State Government, through the Ministry of Tertiary Education, has paid a condolence visit to the family of the late Hafsoh Lawal, a final-year student of the Kwara State College of Education, Ilorin who was gruesomely murdered on Friday by a suspected ritualist Abdulrahman Muhammad Bello.
The Commissioner for Tertiary Education, Dr. (Mrs.) Mary Arinde, who visited the family house of the deceased at Adebalu Compound, Oju-Ekun Sarumi Street, Ilorin, expressed shock over the ugly incident.
Dr Arinde, while expressing sympathy on behalf of the State Government, described the incident as ‘’unfortunate, alien and a regrettable act of wickedness.”
According to her, the state government would ensure justice for the victim, adding that it has become pertinent for parents, guardians, as well as people in the neighbourhood to remain vigilant to happenings around them, especially ensuring that their children and wards are in the company of people of impeccable character who are from the well-known family background.
In his words of exhortation, the Provost of the Kwara State College of Education, Ilorin, Dr. Ayinde Shehu Jawondo, prayed to God Almighty to comfort the deceased’s family.
The Informant247 reports that an Ilorin-born middle-aged man identified as Abdulrahman Bello has allegedly killed and dismembered the body of Lawal Hafsoh, a final-year student of Kwara State College of Education, Ilorin, for suspected ritual purposes.
According to reports, the deceased, Lawal Hafsoh, had on Monday, 10th of February 2025, declared missing after receiving a call at the naming ceremony.
It was gathered that the lady’s whereabouts were unknown since she received the call.
Meanwhile, on Tuesday, 11th of February 2025, the deceased parents reported the case to the Divisional Police Station at Oja Oba Police Station in Ilorin, the state capital.
However, the police requested her phone number and used it to track her last call, which was traced to an individual living in the Offa garage area of Ilorin,
The suspect, whose family house is in Isalekoto, was tracked and arrested, where he initially denied the knowledge of the lady’s whereabouts. However, when the police searched his house, he confessed that the lady was in his area and had died from an asthma attack after he called her to come over.
Upon further investigation, the police found the lady’s body dismembered and hidden in a bowl, along with the equipment used to dismember her. The suspect is now at the police headquarters in Ilorin.
It was reported that the suspect and the deceased met on Facebook, where they both got connected.
